The metals industry built Birmingham after the Civil War, and biomedical research at UAB helped save the Magic City after the American steel industry collapsed a century later. Now, a UAB physicist is working on a project that ties these two economic pillars together — using DNA.

Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield, assistant professor in the Department of Biology, and colleague secure a $60,000 Binational Science Foundation Start-Up Grant to investigate the response to temperature and ocean acidification in the Levantine region of the Mediterranean Sea.

The premiere lecture in the new PAINTalks Speaker Series will feature Dr. Roger Fillingim, a world-renowned clinical researcher in the field of chronic pain and past-president of the American Pain Society.

A satellite or a spacecraft that better resists micro-meteor strikes. A new catalyst that lowers the cost of a major petroleum feedstock for plastics and slashes greenhouse gas emissions. These are possible payoffs from an inaugural collaboration between the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Southern Research.